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WTF man, this is like the 5th wholesome post 🤨.

Sviripichino

It litelarlly means a musical pussy.

Yeah, it's more for advanced users.

The funny thing is though, I wasn't as advanced when I jumped ship, but I never felt lost in it either. Like with Ubuntu and similar distros, things are fairly simple, but once you start getting nitty gritty with the system, start tinkering and whatnot, things just start not working. Like I was banging my head why this particular app just can't access the internet, when all of the time it was ufw that was blocking it 😒.

What really pissed me off was the sheer number of apps that got installed allongside the main sustem. Like LibreOffice, maybe I didn't want that installed on my system. And systemd seemed way too slugush and buggy for my taste, I really wanted something simpler and very easy to configure and run. So Void fit in there perfectly. Just xfce with some basic apps and plugins, that's it.

Also, one of the main reasons why I bailed ship regarding conventional distros was dependency hell. You try and compile from source and there is always some dependency that's outdated and just doesn't compile 😒. This really really pissed me off, cuz I wanted to use the rig for, let's say encoding, but the x265 lib in the repos was outdated. I wanted the latest, cuz I also wanted to test the progress of x265... things like this really grind my gears and I decided that conventional distros are probably not for me.

ThinkPads have some sort of an open source replacement I think...

In general, they don't... especially not at that age (25+). The ones you mentioned are rare cases, maybe like 5% of the population (dropig numbers, haven't seen any research papers on the subject)... at least from what I've seen so far in life.

You're probably young and optimistic, I get that, I was as well. But, when you see how things around you develop (in what direction), you start to realize that people have certain character traits that makes them who they are, regardless if they are good or bad. It's just who they are 🤷. Sure, they do change, but then they relapse and then there is that vicious circle of up and down, which I hate to be honest.

Sorry, had to edit the post a few times.

Hope is our biggest asset... as humans... and our biggest downfall... I had hope as well.

Sorry for saying this, but from my current perspective (experience), nah, I wouldn't take that chance. If I was in your place (not having to live through what I have, and still doing it BTW), yes, I most probably would take that chance as well.

A friend of mine once told me, entering a marrige with hope doesn't end well. From what I've seen around me (other examples and my own mother and father), yes, in most cases, it doesn't end well.

Basically, you're getting "damaged goods" in the start. If you feel like you're also damaged goods and need a lot of work (from one perspective or another), that's fine I guess, but I never felt like that. Sure, everyone has his/her quirks, no doubt there, but this is big. When pushing comes to shoving (as does from time to time in life), she'll probably just go into recession and start drinking again... and this will happen from time to time, not too often, bit then she'd go to rehab, you won't be with your partner for an undisclosed ammount of time... I mean, really? Is that what you'd want your life to be like? Talking from experience here, my family's and my own, trust me. Yes, people can change, but these are rare cases. Most of the time, they don't.

My 2 cents...

I'm not willing to take that chance again. Got burned once, not willing to try it again.

And I was speaking from my own experience, as everyone else does (yourself included).

IDK what to tell you... mood swings will most probably be a part of your life. She drank for a reason, it made her feel good. When she doesn't have that fix, she's most probably like you experience her now. She might get better with time (less abusive), than again, chances are (from my experience) that she won't.

Do you really love this person? I mean really, like truly. Cuz you have to realize that this will most probably be like the rest of your life.

I did a similar mistake, married the wrong person out of pitty for her (I wanted to help her). Do understand, people don't change, at least not at the age of 25 and above (I assume you're both not in your teens). Damaged goods is not something I'd be willing to accept again as my life partner. Now I'm stuck with her for the next 15 years or so, till the kid grows up.

Think about having children with this person long and hard and whether you could endure that with a person like that. Marriages come and go, you 2 could get divorced, no harm no faul, but children are for life.

Yes, my point exactly. There is no mass at the L2 point, so how can it spin around it.

Others explained it though, it makes sense now 👍.

PS: What are enbies 🤨?

Xfce is cool, I use it on all my installs. But than again, I have never tinkered with themes that much or tray icons 🤷.

Try Void if you're not too afraid of the terminal 😁. The repo is pretty good and stuff mostly works out of the box. If they don't, you just need to configure them correctly.